Economic Data

What you get

• Plain files over HTTPS

  Each series for each place as a small JSON or CSV file, plus every dataset as one CSV or Parquet file. No key or signup.

• Versions you can cite

  Every update gets a version id, and a pinned URL always returns the same data. The first version of each month is kept for good, so results stay reproducible.

• Checked before publishing

  Each update is validated against its contract. If a check fails, the last good version stays live.

• Licenses up front

  Every dataset names its source, its license, the exact credit line and whether commercial use is allowed.

• County personal income (BEA CAINC1)

  Annual personal income, population and per capita personal income for every county, state and the nation from the Bureau of Economic Analysis table CAINC1, 1969 to the latest year, in current (not inflation-adjusted) dollars. BEA combines some Virginia independent cities with their counties and Kalawao with Maui; those combination areas appear under BEA's own codes (bea-*). Connecticut has both its legacy counties and its planning regions where BEA publishes them.

  Time series Yearly

• Median household income (ACS 5-year)

  Median household income with its 90 percent margin of error for every county, state and the nation from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-year estimates (table B19013), one row per release from 2005-2009 onward; the date is the release's final year. Each release is in its own final year's inflation-adjusted dollars, so releases are not directly comparable, and overlapping 5-year periods should not be compared year to year. Geography follows each release.

  Time series Yearly

• Local area unemployment (LAUS)

  Monthly labor force, employment, unemployment and unemployment rate from the BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics program for every state (from 1976), metropolitan and micropolitan area and county (from 1990), not seasonally adjusted, plus BLS's seasonally adjusted series for states and three metros. October 2025 is missing for the 50 states, DC and their substate areas because the household survey was not collected during the federal shutdown; those months are null with footnote X and are never interpolated. The latest month is preliminary.

  Time series Monthly

• County employment and wages (QCEW)

  Quarterly employment, total wages, average weekly wage and establishment counts covered by unemployment insurance, all industries and ownerships combined, for every county, state and the nation from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2014 to the latest quarter. Each date is the first month of its quarter (2026-01 is Q1 2026). The national total covers the 50 states and DC; Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are listed separately. Connecticut appears as its eight legacy counties through 2023 and its nine planning regions from 2024, as BLS publishes it.

  Time series Quarterly

• World macro core indicators

  Annual GDP (current US dollars), real GDP growth, GDP per capita, consumer price inflation, unemployment (ILO modeled estimate) and population for every economy and the world from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, 1960 to the latest year. Regional and income-group aggregates are left out; Kosovo and the Channel Islands, which have no ISO country code, are included as wb-xkx and wb-chi.

  Time series Quarterly

Quickstart

Three requests: the catalog, one dataset's metadata and one data file.

curl -s "https://api.economicdata.dev/v1/catalog"
curl -s "https://api.economicdata.dev/v1/bea-county-income"
curl -s "https://api.economicdata.dev/v1/bea-county-income/annual/usa.csv"

Base URL: https://api.economicdata.dev. Next: the docs and the API reference.